Wednesday, 19 March 2003  8:30 am
With war now imminent, everybody's attention (including mine) will be focused on the events in Iraq.  I will therefore be suspending my daily column "for the duration", as they used to say.  

Here is an index sorted by topic of my past columns:

1. The effect of deflation on high tech (November 5, 7, and 8)

2. The threat of “good-enough computing” (November 20, December 12, March 4, 5 and 12)

3. The failure of 20 years of attempts at convergence between computing, telephony, TV, and photography (November 14, December 11, and February 19)

4. The promise of always-on fixed-price nationwide wireless data networks (November 21, December 6, March 14 and 18))

5. The future vision of “innovation on demand” (November 22 and December 4)

6. The telecommunications industry structure and problems (November 12, December 5, February 10, 21 and 24, and March 4,  6 and 7)

7. The importance of corporate research labs such as Lucent’s Bell Labs, Xerox’s PARC, and IBM’s Research (November 11)

8. The computer industry structure (November 11, February 10 and March 4)

9. The possibility of a return to regulated monopoly structure in telecommunications (November 13 and 15, December 10, February 21 and 24, and March 7)

10. The current deadlock in the venture capital business (November 20)

11. The current trend reversal between a market led by the private sector to one led by the public sector (November 18 and 19 and March 3)

12. The return of optimism (December 2 and 3, and February 25)

13. The return of Keynesian economic policy (December 9)

14. The importance of the space program (February 1)

15. The lack of technical competence of the people in charge of our technology assets (February 3 and 20)

16. The causes of the decline in high tech (November 11, December 3, February 3, 4, and 20, and March 4) 

17. Retrospective on the conclusions of The Slingshot Syndrome (February 10 and 14)

18. How and why journalists get it wrong when reporting on the high tech industry and even sometimes manufacture scandals (February 11 and March 7)

19. Why corporate strategy often doesn't yield benefits, even when it is on target (February 18)

20. How much high tech companies spend on R&D (March 4)

21. The tech stock bubble and its aftermath (March 7 and 10)

22. New tactics for growth in a stagnant economy (March 11)

23. Are geopolitical uncertainties really influencing the economy and the financial markets? (March 12, 13, 14, 17, and 18)

Best wishes to everyone participating in the coalition forces in Iraq!

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